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What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children

18 points FinnLobsien 1 hour ago 8 comments

semiquaver 19 minutes ago | parent

  > If watching your kid’s real-time location isn’t enough, there is Life360, a tracking app that allows parents to review up to 30 days of time-stamped location history, monitor driving to make sure their kids stay within the speed limit, and get alerts when they arrive at or leave saved locations, such as home, school, and, yes, a college dorm. “Holy sh—,” a psychologist who studies kids’ resilience started to say when I described the app to him.
I’m sorry, this psychologist is a person who academically studies the issue and is not familiar with the capabilities of Life360?? Why would the author of this piece have continued talking to someone after they demonstrated themselves to be so shockingly ignorant of their own field?

not-kinsale-joe 15 minutes ago | parent

Why should a psychologist know all the capabilities of Life360? Why does that make them an ignorant psychologist?

semiquaver 15 minutes ago | parent

  > a psychologist who studies kids’ resilience
You simply can’t have talked to that many kids, or parents, if the idea that parents track their kids location is news to you.

not-kinsale-joe 9 minutes ago | parent

What in that article made you think the psychologist didn't know parents track their children?

simoncion 14 minutes ago | parent

I'd go a step further and ask why a psychologist should know every single piece of stalkerware that's advertised to parents as being a good thing to install on their kids' computers.

RataNova 3 minutes ago | parent

Modern marketing just preys on parental guilt. If you don't buy a $300 sensor or track your kid's location every second, they subtly make you feel like an irresponsible parent.

It's actually sad for kids. In childhood being able to stay out a bit longer, solve sudden problems without calling mom, or just sit alone taught you how to cope with the world. But if someone monitors a child all the way to their college dorm door, it's unclear how they're supposed to develop personal autonomy at all